parent and child

When Duckworth finds a snake in his closet, and then is swallowed whole, his parents are sure he is simply being difficult.

"What if Belle's mother cursed the Beast? ... When Belle touches the Beast's enchanted rose, memories flood through Belle's mind, memories of a mother she thought she would never see again. And, stranger still, she sees that her mother is none other than the beautiful enchantress who cursed the castle and all its inhabitants. Shocked and confused, Belle and the Beast will have to unravel a dark mystery about their families that is 21 years in the making"--Amazon.com.

Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are keeping secrets, because she is sure there is something wrong with her little brother, Memito, who is becoming increasingly hard to reach.

In 1971, unpopular and lonely tenth-grader Andi--teased at her Long Island high school for her large breasts and ignored at home by her distant parents--builds a fantasy romantic life around her clandestine, sexual relationship with a man in his thirties.

A collection of approximately ninety stories designed to inspire and comfort parents, including works by Peter Fonda, Martha Beck, and Gary Lautens.

Fifteen-year-old Camilla gains new maturity through her relationship with her best friend's brother and the growing realization that her parents are fallible individuals.

Charlie the Tramp rescues an abandoned baby from the garbage and raises him to survive in the streets, but their devoted relationship is threatened when the Kid's mother, now a famous opera singer, decides to mount a search for her child.

Bob and Rex are promising high school baseball players, but their world turns upside down when their father dies suddenly while umpiring a softball game.

Ricardete, a little boy who enjoyed everyone's undivided attention as an only child, is distressed when his sister Susana is born, and believes he is no longer loved.